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As expected, Europe finally catches up to 2024 and launches an LLM that barely competes against the heavyweights. The US and China are running rings around Eur
by rvz 1y ago
As expected, Europe finally catches up to 2024 and launches an LLM that barely competes against the heavyweights.
The US and China are running rings around Europe.
Mistral is an exception as it was funded by US VCs and they are a great example showing that without VC funding, Mistral would have been begging to the EU for a microsopic grant to train a LLM worse than Llama.
- Anonasty 1y agoEuroLLM is not a business venture so you can only compare it to other publicly funded and developed models of the US and China.
- laurentiurad 1y agoless exposure to a technology that doesn't bring that much revenue and it's not projected to do so in the upcoming years.
- whimsicalism 1y agoyep, Europe is demonstrating the same sort of strategic thinking that economic behemoths like the Smithsonian use
- oytis 1y agoWhy wasting money on trying to compete at all then?
- t43562 1y agoEvery country needs a few plumbers and carpenters whether or not they are at the forefront of technology. Some money must be spent to give academics work to do so they can sharpen up their skills and perhaps teach the next set of students who might be more commercial
- oytis 1y agoIt would be a better use of the money to hire someone who has worked on actual frontier models to teach at European universities
- t43562 1y agoIf you could find one for the money, if they were happy to teach in the long term. If it wasn't better to have N for the price of 1. In other situations of import substitution I'm pretty sure people try to develop their local talent in addition to buying in experts.
- AJ007 1y agoMistral is pretty much toast? Their models perform poorly and I'm not sure why anyone would use them. Maybe there is a catching up point somewhere in the future, hopefully.